Canvas Boards

Your creative work, laid out in front of you

Imagine laying out every piece of a project on a giant table — posts, articles, designs, emails, prototypes — and being able to see everything at once, move pieces around, group them by theme, and draw lines between related items. That's a Canvas board.

A board is a named workspace. You create one for each project or campaign: "Q2 Product Launch," "Website Redesign," "Summer Content Plan." Everything related to that project lives inside it, on the same infinite surface.

Content cards

Every piece of work on the board appears as a card. A card shows you a preview of the content — whether it's a post, an article, a design, or something else — along with key details like its type, its status, and where it's headed.

You can scan a busy board and instantly see what's in draft, what's ready, and what's already out. No opening files, no digging through folders.

Groups: keeping things organized

When a board starts filling up, you can group related cards visually. Give a group a color and a name — "Social Posts," "Email Campaign," "Landing Pages" — and everything inside gets a clear visual identity.

A marketer planning a launch might group everything by channel: Instagram posts outlined in pink, email in green, the landing page in blue. At a glance, the whole campaign is readable.

Connections: drawing the relationships

Content rarely exists in isolation. A blog post leads to a social thread. A prototype links to a sign-up page. An email drives people to a landing page.

You can draw a line between any two cards to show their relationship, with an optional label to describe it: "promotes," "next step," "source." These connections make the strategy visible, not just the individual pieces.

Design prototypes in a content board

Canvas boards aren't just for text content. You can place interface designs — landing pages, app screens, onboarding flows — directly on the same board as your copy and campaign materials.

A product launch board might have the landing page design on the left, the launch email in the middle, and the social posts on the right. You can zoom in on any of them, see how they relate, and make sure the message is consistent across everything.

Status tracking

Every board has a status that tells you where it is in your process: just getting started, actively being worked on, or completed. Individual cards have their own status too.

This makes it easy to filter: show me only what's active right now. Show me what's done. Show me what's still in draft. You don't need a separate project management tool — the board tracks itself.

Navigating large boards

As a board grows, two tools keep you oriented:

Zoom controls let you zoom out to see the whole board at once, or zoom in to focus on a specific area. Fit-to-view instantly adjusts the zoom to show everything.

The minimap is a small overview in the corner showing your entire board in miniature, with a highlight for where you're currently looking. Click anywhere on the minimap to jump there instantly.

A practical example

You're planning a product launch. You open Canvas and create a board called "Q2 Launch."

You add the landing page design, the announcement email, and a series of social posts across three platforms. You group the social posts by platform. You connect the email to the landing page with the label "drives to." You connect the social posts to the blog post they're promoting.

You zoom out and see the whole campaign. You notice you're light on LinkedIn coverage. You zoom in on the landing page and make a note. In fifteen minutes you have a clear, visual picture of everything that needs to happen — and you can see how it all fits together.

That's what Canvas boards are for.